New Angular: Fishing Hamilton: 2015

[philantropie]

Quote:You can save one swivel by tying a loop at the bottom of the rig. Using the loop, you can use the same technique to snell on the sinker. The bottom swivel is nice to reduce so twist to your line generated by the sinker when you retrieve, but if you have a good swivel at the top, that's not much of an issue in my experience.

Very cool. If going to be using swivels, I may just see how much they are at fishing world. Or I may buy bulk online someplace (ebay, amazon, or BPS). I'll see what I can muster up a decent order of hooks and weights too. After fishing with the rigs I made today, it seems like an excellent way to catch fish.

I'll most likely keep the double dropper loop how I've made it, but I'll try to do what have suggested. Though, I think my line that I am using for the bottom rig is mono-filament, about 20 years old, and still strong as heck. So I'm guessing it may be even 20 lb. test or more. It's strong, but thicker than the braid I use. The rod I had in the basement had a damaged small eye, so I made a spool of line with the reel that hasn't been used in years.

From playing around with the rigs that I made the other day, I've figured that using a shorter line for the snelled hook on the bottom(so it's a little above the weight), and a longer top snelled hook on the rig so either way, it is less tangled. But still tangles anyway, but still love the idea and will use it for a long time. Today I went through 3 of my rigs I made from the rough bottom at Bayfront Park but it was a blast.

I'm not complaining though because in the morning after fishing for two hours, I finally threw out the line, went into some weeds and I caught a Lake trout(I'm not 100% but about 65%) about 30 degrees from the shore. The fish was a good 8 inches in length and looked very healthy. The bugger swallowed the hook, but surprisingly enough I removed the hook without blood and guts, let the little dude go in the water and it *zoomed* back into the depths. Kind of made me happy that I unhooked it well with pliers and managed to cause less harm than I thought it would have. I really do think it was my first fish, ever! Definitely first fish of the season. I was surprised at how rigid the body of the fish felt. I figured the meat of the fish would have been a bit more muscular or soft.

I really do thank you for all your input. I love it here already.

Great forum.
Cheers.